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======  Minute of meeting on 2018.03.14 ======

===== 1.  Attendees  =====
-- Alexander Pawlitzki (Thales-Alenia Space, Germany) \\
-- Dan Elftmann (Xilinx) \\
-- Drew Boudreau (Trident Systems) \\
-- Eliot Glaser (Northrop Grumman) \\
-- Gary Swift (meeting moderator, Swift ERS) \\
-- Greg Allen (JPL-NASA) \\
-- Heather Quinn (Los Alamos National Lab) \\
-- Joseph (Joe) Marshall (BAE) \\
-- Kristen Murphy (General Dynamics) \\
-- Luis Berrojo (TAS-E, Thales-Alenia Space, España) \\
-- Mark Graham (Xilinx FAE, Florida) \\
-- Mike Wirthlin (BYU) \\
-- Philip Chang (RUAG)\\
-- Ron Smith (Northrop Grumman) \\
-- Sebastian Garcia (Slabs) \\
-- Stephen Thomas (Boeing) \\
-- Steve Pearl (General Dynamics) \\
-- Victor Liau (Hughes Network Systems) \\


===== 2.  Topics covered =====

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Paragraphs below are comments made by Gary (unless otherwise indicated).


**XRTC'2018 Annual Meeting** date has settled down: August 20th and 21st. And a follow-up infrastructure team meeting on Wednesday 23rd.  

**Infrastructure: Gen-4 HW** news. 
The motherboard (backplane) schematic will be closed this Friday.
Xilinx is putting resources to develop the KU060 DUT board NRE, towards having the board for next May tests. 

Greg (JPL) comment that they're planning to perform **TID testing on the UltraScale family**, soon.

** Zynq US+ latchup suppression experiment** news. 
"I" temperature-grade parts have been ordered. Dan comments there are no "Q" (automotive) parts for the ZU9, and the "M" parts will be available at the end of the year. 
Dan is looking inside Xilinx for additional ZCU102 boards, the available ones will probably be from previous rev. numbers. 
Regarding IBML-LANL facility, Heather will soon confirm its availability. She also mentioned a Tandem Van de Graaff facility that may be appropriate, though need to ask about achievable particle fluxes. As an alternative, Jeremiah (NG) is also exploring the possibility of obtaining beam time from White Sands facilities.
Regarding post-DD tests to run on the MPSoC (functional tests at maximum specs.), Heather mentions an OCM version of the Mitigation Group's benchmark.
Gary comments that a PS-GPR test will be required.

 
**More Virtex-7 beam testing.** BAE will comment on their plans, soon.


** HDL designs for DUTs ** news. 
So far, no kickoff of the development effort for the upcoming UltraScale test campaign. 
Sebastian has taken a preliminary look at the "TILO-method" Verilog code provided by Austin. 
Mike comment that BYU has their own ring oscillator (RO) codes. 
Gary reminds that we expect the RO (and associated counters) to help us, mainly in two cases:\\ 
-- US+ latchup-suppression experiment: A "straight" RO implementation, checking out Fmax degradation after DD. \\
-- US tests: Put a TMR'ed RO in the beam, and observe SET-caused effects.\\


Heather is performing a radiation and reliability analysis on LANL's SDR board based on V5-QV, expected to be launched on next year.

Heather comments she is interested in "single-MeV" neutron effects, after Lambert's work [1].    

Dan comments that the KU060 "space board" will be available on September. 

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[1] //Single Event Upsets Induced by a few MeV Neutrons in SRAMs and FPGAs,// \\
Damien Lambert //et al.,// \\
NSREC-REDW 2017. \\
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8115444/ \\
